[3] He was the son of Charles Lullin de Chateauvieux (1669-1761), a councilor and syndic of Geneva, and Marthe Humbert.

Lullin successfully conducted several experiments to increase crops, particularly cabbage, lucerne, and developed several agricultural implements.

Yet, the work reported that a similar experiment in England upon cabbages had made the same observations, and it was explained as an effect of good and deep hoeing as predicted by Jethro Tull.

[15] Lucerne is the name of the alfalfa, which arose in France, Germany and Britain in the 16th century from the Provençal luzerno ("glow worm"), due to its shiny seeds.

Although Lullin agreed with M. Duhamel and other participants of the new husbandry, that lucerne and sainfoin thrive best when cultivated in beds, his practice differed in many respects from theirs.

About the method of transplanting the lucerne, Lullin explained: This led to the design of a series of rules to be observed in transplanting lucerne into beds: J. Balfour's Select Essays on Husbandry (1767), with extracts from the Museum Rusticum and other foreign essays on agriculture, mentioned the drill-ploughs invented by M. Duhamel and Lullin.

Balfour concluded that "from the practice of the gentlemen abroad, and other instances that might be given at home, it is evident, that they have not seen the additions that Mr Tull made to his Essay, in which, besides his different method of drilling, there are several very material improvements in the manner of hoeing and cultivating wheat, and other crops; and from these last parts of his work may be also seen, that the reports of his bad success, in repeated wheat-crops, are without any just foundation.